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Video games are great and all, but they only allow the player to get so close to the action. The Exit Game allows players to dive into the experience—without bonking their heads on the television screen. Up to 12 players are locked into a room, and they have to work together to escape, scouring the room for puzzles and clues. Each solved puzzle brings them closer and closer to the exit. Rooms are themed and varied in difficulty, from the high-level Chamber to the much easier Vault.

More than 200 games cover the 5000 sq. ft. Family Arcade. Here are just a few:
Air hockey
Basketball shooters
Row after row of pinball machines
Dance games
Fighting games
First person shooter games
The classic arcade is open every day of the week from 8:30 a.m.–1:30 a.m. and open late on the weekends until 2:30a.m.
Parking is available in the Arcade lot.
Outside the Arcade
Family Arcade also rents a wide variety of entertainment equipment—including jukeboxes—to restaurants, movie studios, and other businesses. Over the years, the Pecks have supplied pinball machines and other games to be used as props in a number of films and TV shows.
Meet the Family Behind the Arcade
The Peck Family, Circa the 1970s
Family Arcade lives up to the first word in its name. In 1971, Harry and David Peck founded the company, an arcade and supplier of coin-operated amusement equipment. Over the decades, they've amassed countless pinball machines, arcade games, pool tables, and much more.
The Peck Family, 40 Years Later
Harry and David are still at it more than 40 years later, now with the help of sons Robert and Stephen.

Peekaboo Playland is a safe, creative indoor playground for children aged nine or younger. Located on bustling Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock, the airy and colorful space welcomes families to play on the wide array of playground equipment, or kick back with any one of the many toys on hand. This is a shoe-free zone, of course, where kids can climb and jump for hours without getting scraped up, making it a perfect weekend destination for special events like birthday parties. At under $10 per child, Peekaboo offers a local alternative to parents looking to give their kid some play time, and longer play passes mean repeat visits are a cinch. Areas of particular interest for tykes include a Mother Goose play fort, a plastic kitchen nook, beach room and several slides. There’s also a bounce house on premises and a boutique area upstairs.

A chill creeps down the spine of every person who spends the night at The Great Horror Campout. At that moment?perhaps while roasting marshmallows around the bonfire?you realize every horror story you've ever heard just might be true, and it's all waiting out there in the darkness.
That's the terrifying scene set by The Great Horror Campout, where campers 18 and older embark on an overnight, interactive horror adventure called the Hell Hunt. Terrifying challenges sprawl across the grounds, as do talented actors who take their roles as the undead and deranged very seriously. Among many challenges, these creatures might entomb campers in a mass grave, force them to play games of blood tag, or have them dig through roadkill. To end the onslaught at any time, they can simply shout, "I want my mommy," but if they conquer all terrors they'll earn the title of Hellmaster.
For the fainter of heart, the grounds and their keepers host more laid-back activities, including horror movies, sing-a-longs, and arts and crafts. A monster-free Chicken Zone grants further, albeit temporary, reprieve from the madness, and campers can always stay in their tents and hope the sound outside is just a big squirrel screaming its friendliness.

Wits, problem-solving skills, and teamwork are all put to the test at PanIQ Entertainment. Groups of no more than six friends, family members, or Houdini impersonators find themselves locked inside one of the two themed rooms, each with its own background story, challenges, special effects, and objectives. For the next 60 minutes, the teams race against the clock, working together to solve puzzle after puzzle as they collect useful items, uncover more secrets, and finally use their accumulated resources and knowledge to escape the room before time elapses. The challenges range from logic puzzles to skill tasks, which fully immerse visitors in the live-action gaming experience as they collectively scour every nook and cranny for hidden clues. An ABC News segment shows a team trying to make it through an escape room.

The metallic clunks of baseballs and softballs struck by swinging bats pulse through Castle Batting Cages, located inside Sherman Oaks Castle Park. The hurling apparatuses serve up these ill-fated spheres at speeds as low as 20 miles per hour and as high as 80 miles per hour. The slow-pitch-softball machines toss both low-arc and high-arc strikes, and the fast-pitch-softball cage tests reflexes with speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.

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No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks! When summer arrives, little ones suddenly have nothing but free time on their hands. And one hot-weather ritual that helps drain their boundless energy is a day at the amusement park.Unfortunately, planning for a day at the amusement park can just as efficiently drain parents’ energy. To help put some amusement back into a day at the theme park, we first culled some advice from the ultimate experts: moms. To round out their tips, we turned to two employees of one of the best-known theme parks: Isabel, who drives the parking lot bus, and RJ, a theme park performer and co-host of the amusement-centric Disfunction Podcast. Based on their combined years in the trenches, they let us know what works and what doesn’t.“The first hour,” Isabel says, “is the best time to get on that one ride you just have to go on.” For parents of older kids who can stay up late, RJ recommends returning to the park a few hours before they close. “[Most] families have given up and already retreated to their resorts.” Take photos of where your car is, signs, including the view from behind you, as if you’re leaving the park.Isabel sighs, “I wish more people would do this!” RJ can empathize: one of his past theme park gigs was in the parking lot, and at every shuttle stop, he was required to repeat the section number over and over “and over.” As such, RJ wholeheartedly agrees with the recommendation, “Write it on your favorite child's forehead [if you have to].” All joking aside, charging the kids with remembering where the car is can help settle those end-of-the-day arguments over whether you parked in A12 or A13.“Agreed!” RJ’s packing list of just the essentials would include the following: a refillable water bottle for each person, sunscreen, bug spray, and a travel-size umbrella. Other additions might be extra clothing (including shoes and socks), towels, ponchos, sanitizing wipes, and plastic baggies to protect valuables. “And motion sickness bags,” smirks Isabel.The food at the park is usually fatty and expensive. Halfway through the day, “We . . . get our hand stamped, and go hang out in the car and eat. If I turn on the air my little guy will usually take a quick nap.”While this is certainly an option, at larger amusement parks this may take more time than it’s worth. RJ advises to research what’s available at the park before you go; they often have healthier options. An alternative: pack snacks. “You have something to nibble on while you wait in line.” “[You] can fit more, and then my other kids can either ride or my 2 year old can lay flat.” Sometimes he even naps in there! Another great idea, says RJ, but he kindly made one suggestion: “If you know you're gonna bring in a double-wide or a wheelbarrow to the parks, be mindful that you are going to a place where there will be hundreds, maybe thousands, of people around you [and] you're taking up a lot of room.” Patience and extra awareness is key. Isabel does caution families to call ahead: “Certain parks do not allow wagons as they are a trip hazard.”“When my kids were small,” counters Isabel, “I kept them on their schedules.” So try to fit a nap down when you can, even if it means taking a break and heading back to the resort or car. When it comes to the rides, says RJ, let your kids take the reins. “Don't feel pressured into doing something that you were told you must do if it’s not what your kids want to do.” If your eight-year-old wants to watch the show at the toddler park, that’s cool. “And if little Charlie wants to do the carousel again and again and again, then by all means do let him; the memory of Charlie crying in the car ride home could ruin all the other memories you made that day.”

“If you want the ultimate, you’ve got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.” This quote, attributable to Patrick Swayze’s character in the film Point Break, ran through my mind as I stood at the base of the tallest, steepest, fastest wooden roller coaster in the world in the middle of a thunderstorm. Cameras and lightning took turns flashing as Hank Salemi, the president of Six Flags Great America, stood before a group of onlookers who had come to conquer the theme park’s latest exercise in terror, Goliath. “Hopefully, the weather will hold off,” Salemi said, as the skies darkened further.
It’s not like Goliath needs severe weather to come off as scary. The new coaster with an Old Testament name already has this going for it: a 180-foot first drop, top speeds of 72 miles per hour, two breathtaking inversions, and a spiraling inverted zero-G stall. Throw in a little rain and Goliath starts to seem less like something you ride and more like something you survive. As this video proves, we did just fine:
But now that we’ve conquered Goliath, the question becomes: what other extreme coasters does America have on tap for 2014? Here are five of the biggest and baddest, ranked on our newly conceived scale of “Goliath-Slaying Slingshots to the Gut.”
Goliath, in case you were wondering, ranks in at a perfect 10.
Banshee
King’s Island | Mason, OH
The world’s longest inverted roller coaster is also the first to be named after a mythological omen of death. Perhaps this is merely a coincidence. In any case, you’ll have plenty of time to ponder mortality as you whip across seven inversions and a record-breaking 4,124 feet of track.
Number of Goliath-Slaying Slingshots to the Gut: 9/10
Lightning Run
Kentucky Kingdom | Louisville, KY
A coaster with the force of a meteorological event, Lightning Run is the kind of thing you might wish on an inaccurate weatherman. The 10-story steel coaster starts off with a 100-foot drop that’s just a few degrees away from vertical. Coincidentally, 100 is also the number of valerian-root supplements you’ll need to calm down after this one.
Number of Goliath-Slaying Slingshots to the Gut: 6/10
El Loco
The Adventuredome at Circus Circus | Las Vegas, NV
An indoor coaster with sudden turns, over-the-edge twists, and a 90-degree drop, El Loco's least terrifying attribute is something called a "donut roll," which sounds delicious (but is probably still terrifying).
Number of Goliath-Slaying Slingshots to the Gut: 7/10
Firechaser Express
Dollywood | Pigeon Forge, TN
This dual-launch and backward-running family coaster may not be the most thrilling on our list, but its twists and turns will still have you hitting high notes like Dolly on “Jolene.”
Number of Goliath-Slaying Slingshots to the Gut: 3/10
The Thunderbolt
Luna Park | Coney Island, NY
Alvy Singer’s childhood home may be a thing of the past, but children are still developing nervous personalities in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. The latest culprit is Luna Park’s Thunderbolt, the first custom-built roller coaster in Coney Island since 1927. Stretching 125 feet into the air, The Thunderbolt has it all: loops, drops, and a spiraling view of the New York skyline.
Number of Goliath-Slaying Slingshots to the Gut: 8/10
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